The walls were two metres thick, which is not the construction habit of a family simply wanting to keep out a draught. Whoever raised this structure meant it to endure, or to withstand something more forceful than the ordinary pressures of domestic life.

The site sits in the western sector of the Clashmelcon promontory, and what survives is a rectangular house-site measuring 13.4 metres by 7.7 metres, with those notably substantial walls still traceable on the ground. The dating remains unresolved, which is itself telling. A building this size and this robustly constructed could belong to any number of periods in Irish history, and without excavation or documentary evidence to anchor it, it stays in the ambiguous category of structures that clearly existed but refuse to explain themselves further. Toal, writing in 1995, recorded its dimensions carefully, and the numbers alone suggest something more than a modest rural dwelling. Promontory sites in Ireland were used across a very long span of time, sometimes as defended settlements, sometimes for purposes that are no longer legible in the landscape.